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Corel pushes XML integration in new WordPerfect
News Canadian software maker Corel on Wednesday announced it will release the newest version of its flagship office suite, WordPerfect Office 11, in late April. With WordPerfect Office 11, we're offering a highly capable product to longtime WordPerfect...
[March 6, 2003, 9:33]
Corel to beef up corporate focus
News In May, Corel will ship a new version of WordPerfect Suite 8 that includes Dragon's Naturally Speaking dictation software and a microphone for use in the word processor application. The UK manager is Peter Harborow who said that one of his first...
[March 13, 1998, 10:01]
Comdex: Corel says still full-speed ahead on Linux
News But on the Linux side, we are still making plans for new versions of our [WordPerfect Office and Corel Draw] products. In the next three to four weeks, expect us to release a corporate directional statement that will come out of each of our three...
[November 14, 2000, 15:46]
Sun to push StarOffice for Apple's OS X
News Corel stopped supporting WordPerfect for the Mac several years ago, which eliminated Office's biggest competitor. Microsoft expected to sell 750,000 copies of the software; since its release last November, only 300,000 copies of Mac Office have sold.
[July 29, 2002, 8:55]
The Day Ahead: Corel tries out new buzzwords
News To minimise the damage of the Linux sales dip and another disappointing quarter, Cowpland said Corel's WordPerfect Office 2000 for Linux is off to manufacturing. Will Corel deliver on any of those new high-tech initiatives?
[March 21, 2000, 11:50]
Linux on the desktop slow to take off
News The machine, which will be priced between $729 and $1179, will come bundled with the Linux operating system and KDE GUI desktop, Netscape Communicator 4.5, Corel's WordPerfect for Linux, and other desktop features.
[December 31, 1998, 9:23]
Comdex '99: Corel puts a penguin the desktop
News By the first quarter of 2000, Corel plans on delivering both the complete Corel WordPerfect Office Suite and CorelDraw. What it lacks, except for Corel's WordPerfect 8 for Linux, are applications that look and feel like Windows applications.
[November 17, 1999, 9:52]
Corel plans hardware, software barrage
News WordPerfect Suite 8 for Windows 95 and NT is planned for summer 1997 but Corel will deliver a 7.x update in February to compete with Microsoft's first quarter release of Office 97. A preview of WordPerfect Suite 8 for Java can be downloaded from...
[September 27, 1996, 14:08]
Windows Vista Business review
Reviews Hard-core Microsoft fans who live and breathe within the MSN, Live.com and Microsoft desktop software ecosystem will rejoice with the release of Windows Vista, but for the rest of us who are product-agnostic (who use programs like Firefox, Google...
[January 25, 2007, 14:22]
StarOffice 6.0 beta review
Reviews However, unlike Microsoft Office, Lotus SmartSuite or Corel WordPerfect Office, the StarOffice beta doesn't come with a database. If you're looking for a low-cost (as opposed to no-cost) suite that translates Microsoft's file formats more...
[February 12, 2002, 23:00]
Corel takes Paradox command from stricken Borland
News Through a previous licence, Paradox is already part of the Corel Office Professional suite for Windows 95, alongside WordPerfect, Quattro Pro and Presentations. Corel said it plans to release a new version of Paradox with Web publishing tools for...
[October 23, 1996, 14:32]
Microsoft Office 2007 beta 1 review
Reviews The impending release, delayed from this autumn to next year, will further distinguish the company's productivity tools from those of the competition - chiefly OpenOffice.org 2.0, Star Office 8 and Corel's WordPerfect Office X3.
[March 27, 2006, 8:45]
US Report: Linux gains ground -- but don't expect a quick install
News Netscape has long had Linux versions of its browsers that function similarly to the Windows and Mac versions, and Corel recently began selling a Linux version of WordPerfect. In his attacks on Microsoft, he used Linux as an example of an...
[July 23, 1998, 11:36]
Microsoft bails out rival Corel
News Corel's WordPerfect desktop suite runs on a variety of operating systems, including Linux. Corel, which was best known for its WordPerfect and CorelDraw graphics software until last year's leap into the Linux market, has been grappling with a cash...
[October 3, 2000, 8:15]
Corel sinks deeper in the red
News Corel recently launched versions of Linux and its WordPerfect Family Pack. Corel has seen a fourth quarter loss of 14 cents a share. Wall Street was expecting a profit of 12 cents a share. While we are disappointed by the preliminary results, we...
[December 23, 1999, 6:08]
Corel plunges after profit warning
News Corel recently launched versions of Linux and its WordPerfect Family Pack. Corel, which recently hit a 52-week high of 44 1/8 fuelled by Linux hype, fell 4 13/16 to 13 3/4, or 25 percent, after it shocked investors Wednesday with a profit warning.
[December 23, 1999, 10:49]
Bug mars OpenOffice's big day
News WordPerfect files can be imported. The fifth anniversary of the OpenOffice.org launch seemed like a good day to release version 2.0 of the open-source office software suite, but a last-minute bug has forced a delay.
[October 14, 2005, 9:50]
OpenOffice 2.0 released
News WordPerfect files can be imported. Project organisers had hoped to release the upgrade last week, on the fifth anniversary of the creation of the open source project, but a last-minute bug derailed the plan.
[October 20, 2005, 15:50]
NT will hold back Windows Server 2003
News The company's new version, WordPerfect 11, comes with a special mode for simulating version 5.1. During the early 1990s, Corel's WordPerfect had a virtual lock on the word processing market. One factor contributing to the product's decline: users...
[May 2, 2003, 11:20]
How open is the new Office?
News Absolutely," those files would be usable in, say, WordPerfect Office if the product supported XSD, he said. The move could also hamper data exchange with competing desktop productivity software that recognises XML, such as Corel's WordPerfect or...
[December 16, 2002, 11:50]
